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A documentary that explores the question: In the age of manscaping, metrosexuals, and grooming products galore - what does it mean to be a man?A documentary that explores the question: In the age of manscaping, metrosexuals, and grooming products galore - what does it mean to be a man?A documentary that explores the question: In the age of manscaping, metrosexuals, and grooming products galore - what does it mean to be a man?
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Morgan Spurlock
- Self
- (uncredited)
Wilford Brimley
- Self
- (archive footage)
Clark Gable
- Self
- (archive footage)
Freddie Mercury
- Self
- (archive footage)
Salvador Dalí
- Self
- (archive footage)
Christopher Lee
- Fu Manchu
- (archive footage)
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- TriviaIn a 2012 interview with International Business Times, Morgan Spurlock revealed that the scenes with Will Arnett and Jason Bateman were completely improvised: "All of their scenes were shot last. We went to the spa for the day and filmed them going from station to station and getting different treatments. We knew the different segments that we wanted to shoot and we filmed them having multiple conversations."
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Michael Kimmel: Really, masculinity is performed for the evaluative eyes of other men. It's really other men who we really need to validate, check us out, what, you know, legitimate our sort of performance of masculinity.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Chelsea Lately: Episode #6.69 (2012)
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Not Spurlock's Best
A documentary that explores the question: In the age of manscaping, metrosexuals, and grooming products galore - what does it mean to be a man? Morgan Spurlock is not putting on his best show here, and I think it might be because this film is drowning in celebrities (though this can possibly be explained by the producing of Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Ben Stiller -- the first two being great hosts).
I like that the idea of mustache = pedophile was brought up, though some people pull it off (such as John Waters). How something fashionable in the 1970s or 1980s could today (2014) be so wrong is amazing, and the transition in popular culture would be worth exploring.
I also really liked the scene with the wrestler shaving. I am not quite as hair as he is, but I can relate.
The staff of the The A.V. Club named it one of the worst movies of 2012, criticizing it as "absolutely insufferable, a shabby excuse for a documentary that sadistically stretches to feature length a premise that would barely support a two-minute short." This is going much too far, though I confess much of it came off as fluff without any real substance.
I like that the idea of mustache = pedophile was brought up, though some people pull it off (such as John Waters). How something fashionable in the 1970s or 1980s could today (2014) be so wrong is amazing, and the transition in popular culture would be worth exploring.
I also really liked the scene with the wrestler shaving. I am not quite as hair as he is, but I can relate.
The staff of the The A.V. Club named it one of the worst movies of 2012, criticizing it as "absolutely insufferable, a shabby excuse for a documentary that sadistically stretches to feature length a premise that would barely support a two-minute short." This is going much too far, though I confess much of it came off as fluff without any real substance.
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- Mar 27, 2014
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- ¡Qué bonito es ser un hombre!
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- Gross US & Canada
- $36,280
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,395
- May 20, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $36,280
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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